Rejecting a science panel’s warning that the North Carolina coast should prepare for an increasingly rapid rise in sea level later in this century, a Senate committee on Thursday endorsed far-reaching rules that would force planning and regulatory agencies to base sea-level forecasts only on the slower rates recorded in the past.
“If you’re going to use science when you really can’t validate it, … you’re going to be implementing policy and rules and regulations that can have a very, very negative impact on the coastal economy of this state,” said Sen. David Rouzer, a Benson Republican who championed the legislation and is running for Congress. Read more here on the bill being ridiculed worldwide.
More political news:
--A gun bill left over from the flurry of gun bills that cleared the General Assembly last year was resurrected Thursday. This one, HB111, would allow anyone with a permit to carry a concealed weapon to bring that gun into a restaurant that serves alcohol, which is currently illegal.
--Gov. Bev Perdue said Thursday she’d like to see video sweepstakes outlawed once and for all, but as long as they’re legal, she wants to tax the games to fund the state’s public schools. As budget talks continue in the Republican-led General Assembly, Perdue challenged lawmakers to squeeze a new source of state revenue out of the sweepstakes games.
--Spared the death penalty Thursday, Jason Williford raised his head and looked into the eyes of his victim’s daughter, hearing her poised but anguished words on his way to a life behind bars. He will spend the rest of his life in prison for the killing of state school board member Kathy Taft.
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Do any of you even read the
June 8, 2012 - 8:09pm — polifrogThe Science Panel (N.C. Coastal Resources Commission’s Science Panel on Coastal Hazards) that made the sea level rise projection was not practicing resonable science.
According to their study, North Carolina Sea-Level Rise Assessment Report:
They first reduced the 12000 years of data they had available to around 35 by focusing solely on tide table charts, a culling of 99.7% of their data.
The Science Panel then culled the eight tide table charts they had available to one, Duck NC. In doing so they simply chose to ignore 90% of the data that remained from their first culling.
In each of the cullings the Science panel retained only the most extreme data. It was from the extreme data that remained that the panel created a baseline from which to project future sea level rise.
Whatever this is it is not science and NC lawmakers are not only right to reject it but create guidelines that avoid such abuses of science going forward.
thank you
June 8, 2012 - 5:40pm — mountainmanThank you Burke for your post!!! I agree 100%
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June 8, 2012 - 9:59am — Burke"...the bill being ridiculed worldwide". I'm picking up on a trend here - to determine what John Frank personally thinks of any given issue he writes about, simply read the last sentence of the article. Whether its Al Gore-inspired climate alarmism or those damn Confederate Republicans, inevitably Frank cannot contain himself from inserting his bias into what otherwise would be considered straight news. Hate to break it to you N&O, but just like the "Global Cooling" hysteria of the 1970s, the window for "Global Warming" to scare people into supporting bad policy has closed (modern utopias Europe and California notwithstanding).